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Services

Agent Technology for z/OS is comprised of the following services, which are a subset of the CA Technologies services on the distributed platforms:

awservices

Service controller.

aws_orb

The object request broker (that is, the communications handler).

aws_sadmin

The SNMP handler. This service is also responsible for maintaining the MIBs within the Object Store in the UNIX System Services (USS) zSeries File System (zFS).

All of the z/OS-based agents communicate with the Agent Technology for z/OS services, which in turn communicate with the various NSM machines. This communication occurs using the TCP/IP protocol. By default, these services use the following ports:

• 6665-UDP-type port that sadmin uses for SNMP requests.
• 7770-TCP-type port that is used for ORB->ORB communications (Release 2.0-2.1).
• 7774-TCP-type port that is used for ORB->ORB communications (Release 2.2-3.0 and 11.0).
• 9990-TCP-type port that awservices (request port) uses.
• 9991-TCP-type port that awservices (control port) uses.

Review the TCPIP.ETC.SERVICES file to determine if any other service has been registered to use any of these ports.

You can also issue the netstat command (at the ready prompt in TSO) to determine if any of the default ports are already in use before starting the Agent Technology services.